Cab rams into Starbucks in Old Town

October 29, 2008

The damage at the Starbucks. (Tribune photo by Michael Tercha)

A taxicab and a car collided at the intersection of North Avenue and Wells Street in the Old Town neighborhood at about 5:30 a.m. this morning, sending the cab crashing through the window of a Starbucks coffee shop, a Fire Department spokeswoman said.

Each car had only a driver, and both were taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, she said. No pedestrians were hurt.

The Starbucks is at 210 W. North Ave. and is open 24 hours a day. A woman who answered the phone at the shop directed all inquiries to the company's corporate headquarters.